2023-12-25 17:07:23
by CULTURE EDITORIAL
The professor passed away on Christmas Eve at the age of 87. Extraordinary popularizer, essayist, teacher, organizer and curator of exhibitions, director of the Civic Museums of Ancient Art of Bologna, where he was also deputy mayor
The art historian Eugenio Riccomini, who had been suffering from pulmonary emphysema for some time, passed away in Bologna at the age of 87, on the night of Christmas Eve. With Eugenio Riccomini, an important figure for culture in our region disappears. Art historian, proud public official, university professor in Messina and Milan, particularly attentive to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he worked above all in Parma and Bologna. Here he was also deputy mayor and councilor for culture. This is how the president of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Stefano Bonaccini, and the regional councilor for Culture, Mauro Felicori, remember the art historian. He was a giant who loved Bologna, who, like Giambologna’s fountain, educated us to love the beauty of our city. He served the Municipality and the institutions of our country with honor. We will remember him with affection and great gratitude, said the mayor of Bologna Matteo Lepore who awarded him the Golden Archiginnasio in 2021.
Riccomini was born in Nuoro on 5 May 1936, he moved with his family to Viterbo, then to Bologna and Parma; he graduated in Modern Literature with Stefano Bottari and Carlo Volpe and specialized in paleography and archival studies at the State Archives of Parma. He won a competition for Inspector of Antiquities and Fine Arts and began his career in Venice.
In the second half of the 1960s he became the superintendent of the galleries of Bologna, collaborating with the art historian Cesare Gnudi. In the Ferrarese area he dealt with the cataloging of Baroque paintings, held exhibitions, taught history of medieval and modern art, and dealt with the degradation and conservation of outdoor sculptures.
In the early Seventies he was commissioned by the Ministers of Education and Foreign Affairs to organize an exhibition of eighteenth-century Italian painting: the exhibition was exhibited at the Hermitage in Leningrad, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Museum Narodowe in Warsaw.
Between 1995 and 2001 he was director of the Civic Museums of Ancient Art of Bologna, curating some exhibitions, including one dedicated to Donato Creti at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and at the County Museum of Art in Los Angeles (1998-99) . In Bologna he was also a city councilor, councilor for culture and twice deputy mayor.
The last major monographic exhibition he organized (with him Daniele Benati) was dedicated, in 2006, to Annibale Carracci. Starting from 1969, there are numerous essays that he has published throughout his career, which has always kept him in dialogue with institutions in defense of art. He is also remembered as an extraordinary popularizer.
December 25, 2023 (changed December 25, 2023 | 12:01)
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